Crooked Heart of Ritual

Father Elias is a brilliant, skeptical priest armed with a post-structuralist education and a firm belief in psychology. He sets out to interview the Church's most celebrated exorcist, Father Thomas Coyle, intending to "e;deconstruct the legend"e; and expose the rite as a form of "e;social engineering"e;. He believes the demon is merely a "e;psychological scapegoat"e; or a "e;metaphor for the huma...